The Cold War
A Military History
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence–and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot. Such a consideration of the Cold War–as…
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January 21, 2009Stephen E. Ambrose was the author or coauthor of more than 30 books on military affairs and foreign policy. Early in his career he was an associate editor of the Eisenhower papers, and he later went on to publish the definitive three-part biography of Eisenhower, as well as many bestselling books of military history, including Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage. He died in 2002.
Ike's Spies
Stephen E. Ambrose
The Supreme Commander
Stephen E. Ambrose
Rise to Globalism
Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley
The Cold War
Robert Cowley
War Stories
Elizabeth Mullener
Parachute Infantry
David Kenyon Webster, Introduction by Stephen Ambrose
Americans at War
Stephen E. Ambrose
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter
Theodore Roosevelt